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...lead in Broadway's buoyant revival of the 1961 musical on name recognition alone, but it's hard to begrudge him the part. As J. Pierrepont Finch, the World Wide Wicket Co.'s window washer turned mailroom clerk turned rising executive, Broderick "brings the same quizzical intensity of gaze and naturalness of gesture that carried him to stardom in everything from Neil Simon comedies to the Civil War epic film Glory," says TIME contributor Brad Leithauser. As satire goes, Leithauser adds, director Des McAnuff's amiable version "lacks even some of the mild bite of the original." But "this appealing...
...even his darkest interludes are subtle and variegated. There's a vivid moment in one of his stories when an awestruck boy beholds a flash of lightning: "someone seemed to strike a match in the sky." Something lovely is always dancing beyond Chekhov's horizon, toward which his characters gaze with palpable yearning...
Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead...
With shoulder-length red dreadlocks and an intense gaze, Jaron Lanier is a striking presence, even in the strange universe of performance art. But then he does nothing so routine as, say, recite sonnets while cartwheeling nude across a stage. Lanier is a virtual-reality performance artist. In his piece, The Sound of One Hand, which has played to packed theaters in Chicago, Toronto and Linz, Austria, he appears onstage framed by the image of a virtual world he enters when he dons special goggles and a DataGlove. His audience sees what he sees -- and what he does, which...
Matthew B. Brady's reworked and hand-colored studio pictures are miniature versions of the slick and stern protraits of dead white males that gaze out on the Freshman Union walls. It is disconcerting to see how his studio's efforts make the photographs lose realism to become flatly colored images. In mimicking the 19th century landscape paintings of John Constable, Peter Henry Emerson's delicate landscape photographs ironically achieve the realism those paintings painstakingly sought...